New Acceptable Use: Porn?

[HOCINE BENFERHAT]

The Acceptable Use policy has changed, and no longer lists
pornography:

Do we have a thumbs-up to go ahead with Adult content?

[HOCINE BENFERHAT]

link: http://code.google.com/appengine/program_policies.html

[Brandon Wirtz]

It also doesn't list gambling. Interesting...

link: http://code.google.com/appengine/program_policies.html

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[Gregory D'alesandre]

I was wondering when someone was gonna notice.  This was not a mistake.  The new policy does not prohibit pornography nor gambling.  The policy was written to disallow illegal activities but to be flexible in terms of the sorts of businesses people are trying to build.  While you need to talk to your own lawyers about the legality of the business you build, pornography as a whole is no longer disallowed from acceptable use.

Greg

[vlad]

Wow Google is getting off the white horse finally. Are there similar changes coming to Adwords?

[Thomas Wiradikusuma]

Suddenly GAE cost looks cheap compared to its potential ;-)

[Kaan Soral]

For example Adsense now has gambling ads

[Brandon Wirtz]

I lost the thread where someone said these changes were coming to other parts of Google.

 

Apparently this isn’t “System wide” YouTube kicked my video of a fully clothed 20 year old girl eating a popcicle in 3d which was used in a broadcast TV commercial so the FCC was ok with it, but Youtube wasn’t…

 

Time to start building my competitor running on Google’s own hardware :-)   Now if only I could only get a video manipulation library for GAE…. 

[James Broberg]

We already built one. However we don't encode on GAE obviously...

Once we update our Ts and Cs to reflect the new GAE AUP we should be
ready for your lascivious videos:
http://www.metacdn.com/

[Brandon Wirtz]

I was kidding I think. But I will read up on your CDN. Does it do Page
Level Caching?

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> :-) Now if only I could only get a video manipulation library for GAE..

[James Broberg]

So was I.... I think :)

No on page level caching. We are focused on static content delivery,
video transcoding & streaming.

[vlad]

This might be an inflection point for appengine and for Google as whole. GOOG at $2000 anyone?

[Jeff Schnitzer]

Greg, can you guarantee a 3yr commitment not to reverse that policy?

I would hate for a new political administration (or a new upper management team) to suddenly yank that rug out from under an app.  This has happened before (paypal, akamai).

Jeff

[Gregory D'alesandre]

Hi Jeff,

Unfortunately I can't guarantee it.  I can say that there is a 90 day change window to our terms of service OR if you sign up for a Premier account with an offline contract the Acceptable Use Policy is valid for the term of your contract (which is typically 12 months).

I wish I could promise better than that but unfortunately all I can commit to is what we are contractually obligated to do for the reason you noted.

Greg

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